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Ed Rocks - Everything2.com

September 22nd, 2023

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Ed Rocks (fiction) by sam512 Sun Mar 13 2005 at 1:07:10 "You reckon space is the final frontier?" "Erm... define 'frontier'," replies Ed. It is a typical Ed response. Spin out the question a bit further, buy time to think of a proper answer. "Well, there's nowhere else to explore, right?" "Sheesh. Don't put it like that. That's like saying, 'Right! After hundreds of years of diligent exploration, we microscopic bacteria have ...

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Family Plot - The

December 20th, 2022

This article appeared in the December 1, 2022 edition of The Film Comment Letter, our free weekly newsletter featuring original film criticism and writing. Sign up for the Letter here.The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg, 2022)The most fearsome hauntings tend to come from those whom we know intimately. Suspended in spectral purgatory, the spirits of our forebears invoke a shared yet inaccessible past that destabilizes our present. In The Eternal Daughter, Joanna Hogg teases out the inherently go...

The Death of the Editor: Wes Anderson's "The French Dispatch"

October 24th, 2021

There is a moment, deep within the maze of Wes Anderson’s latest film, when art takes on the power to set a prisoner free. We are in France, in the time of de Gaulle (or someone like him). At the police station in the town of Ennui-sur-Blasé, Roebuck Wright (Jeffrey Wright) has been in a holding cell called the Chicken Coop for some days. An anonymous American, still in the eveningwear from the clandestine gay bar where he was picked up, his only contact is a number on the polite rejection le...

Edward's Syndrome - Everything2.com

February 15th, 2021

Near Matches Ignore ExactFull Text Everything2 Edward's Syndrome (thing) by BioTech Fri Nov 02 2001 at 16:00:15 Edward's Syndrome (also known as trisomy 18 or trisomy E) is a congenital disorder caused by a baby having an extra copy of chromosome 18 (in other words, the baby has three copies instead of the normal two). Characteristics of the disorder include widespread defects in internal organs throughout the body and malformed physical features of the face and skeletal s...

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